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30 Frighteningly Realistic CG People

Submitted by Richard Darell37,839 Views | 26 Comments

Working with computer graphics has become quite easy if you know what you are doing. Texturing and adding layers upon layers of photo realistic materials is a blast once you have created the wire frame that is making up your character or object. However the modeling itself is the real hard part. If you for example are trying to create a photo realistic person with all his/her features entirely correctly modeled and textured you can be sure that you have to spend quite a lot of time in front of the computer.

Professionals learn new tricks and shortcuts each day and today, if you have a lot of money, you can use 3D scanners to grab the perfect features in just a few minutes. Texturing though is done per hand and is always fun however it is a really time consuming process that takes both skills and patience.

But once you get the result you’re after it can be quite amazing and awe inspiring. Not only do I think we’ll see more and more actors getting their own computer generated double but it can secure their legendary performances beyond their life span. Once they leave this earth their CG double can take over and make sure they keep on doing movies even though they are no longer present. Makes for a great new era in movie making don’t you think?

I’ve gathered some of the most inspiring and amazing computer generated characters/humans I have ever seen just to prove to you that what you see in movies nowadays isn’t always what you think it is. There might not be a person behind those eyes at all. Think about it…

Author: Desiree Lunsford | Title: Simply Jessica | Website: Artwork

Author: Jian Xu | Title: Body Builder | Website: Artwork

Author: Nicolas Boyer | Title: Selena | Website: Artwork

Author: Everett Houser | Title: Cry of Athena | Website: Artwork

Author: Mariano Steiner | Title: Winter Sun | Website: Artwork

Author: Jarek Switalski | Title: In The Flash | Website: Artwork

Author: Dmitrij Leppé | Title: William Patrick Corgan Wearing a Wig | Website: Artwork

Author: Qin Hu | Title: Johnny Depp | Website: Artwork

Author: Joseph Francis | Title: Were You Praying at the lares Shrine | Website: Artwork

Author: Ning Zhang | Title: Deep Blue | Website: Artwork

Author: Laura Nardinocchi | Title: Serena | Website: Artwork

Author: Frédéric Scarramazza | Title: Denisa Top Model | Website: Artwork

Author: Viktor Yakubovich | Title: Beauty of the Nature | Website: Artwork

Author: Dias Leong | Title: Kurumi Imari the Idol | Website: Artwork

Author: Toru Murano | Title: Rare Shark | Website: Artwork

Author: Oleg Koreyba | Title: 3D Portrait of Sheikh Zayed | Website: Artwork

Author: Pasquale Giacobelli | Title: Allan Kardec – The Coder of the Spiritism | Website: Artwork

Author: Dimitris Katsafouros | Title: Rock is Dead | Website: Artwork

Author: Phil Shoebottom | Title: Napoleon: Total War | Website: Artwork

Author: Jarek Switalski | Title: Old Black Guy – Displacement Study | Website: Artwork

Author: Jelmer Boskma | Title: Johnny Depp | Website: Artwork

Author: Jorge Barrero | Title: Pearl Earring Scarlet Johansson | Website: Artwork

Author: Petr Chegodaev | Title: Amy is Absinthe | Website: Artwork

Author: Jonathan Clark | Title: The Perfect Weight Revisioned | Website: Artwork

Author: Jarek Switalski | Title: Robert De Niro | Website: Artwork

Author: Deniz Özemre | Title: Court Gown | Website: Artwork

Author: Max Aristov | Title: Sumo Oomph | Website: Artwork

Author: Lee Perry-Smith | Title: Substance – The Identity | Website: Artwork

Author: Chengjie Wang | Title: Good-Bye | Website: Artwork

Author: Everett Houser | Title: Surrender | Website: Artwork

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  • thomas said:

    “Makes for a great new era in movie making don’t you think?”

    Really it doesn’t, none of these images look remotely ‘real’
    And as far as getting them to create emotional performances that an audience can engage with? Not likely! Why when many many humans work so hard to be actors and only a few really succeed do you think some rendered version is going to? When you look into the eyes of a great actor you see the intent & emotion.. THAT is what makes them great!

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    Auz Reply:

    Obviously, you have never heard of Shrek or any other CG movie that was a hit. A story is a story. Any medium will work if it is done right.

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    Charles Reply:

    Funny you say that none of these images look remotely “real” there is ONE real person among this selection that I asume was included here due the fact it is in a portfolio in CGSociety, but it is a real one with a CG background.

    And believe me.. there are CG characters that can act much better than real people. (thanks heaven for the animators!!)

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  • Hian Battiston said:

    Wow! AWESOME!
    Thanks!

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  • Brent ~ the roseman said:

    What do we need actor’s for? Just generate them with CG and skip all the union hassles and the soap opera of working with real people with real attitudes…
    Speaking of which, can someone make me a CG copy of Lindsay Lohan just before she went all nuts… something interactive and 3D… oh, and it’s got to be full body – head to toe, with clothing options. ;D

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  • Seesa said:

    All I can say is what amazing talent. Most of them I could not even tell that they were computer generated. The first one I saw that stopped me in my tracks was “Jessica Biel” by Desiree Lunsford. She has the eye for making that piece look so realistic. She stood out from the other pieces of artwork. I seriously stared at it for a really long time and could not see one flaw, it was like a photgraph . It just so astonishes me how the hair, shadows, highlights looks so realistic. Actors would never have to worry about getting old you can just have the computer generated actor for up-close shots. How you do that on the computer is just so amazing. It just blows my mind what people can create on the computer. What is next for the world of art? Only time will tell us what new world art will be coming to us. People have such creative minds and can use the future of technology to create new kind of art.

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    Seesa Reply:

    All I can say is what amazing talent. Most of them I could not even tell that they were computer generated. The first one I saw that stopped me in my tracks was “Jessica Biel” by Desiree Lunsford. She has the eye for making that piece look so realistic. She stood out from the other pieces of artwork. I seriously stared at it for a really long time and could not see one flaw, it was like photgraph . It just so astonishes me how the hair, shadows, highlights looks so realistic. Actors would never have to worry about getting old you can just have the computer generated actor for up-close shots. How you do that on the computer is just so amazing. It just blows my mind what people can create on the computer. What is next for the world of art? Only time will tell us what new world art will be coming to us. People have such creative minds and can use the future of technology to create new kind of art.

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    superb awesome marvelous work

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    The muscle man is frightening for sure! These are great representations of what can be achieved by skilled graphic designers.

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    So good. At the worst they just look like over-shopped photos

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  • Sebastian Schmitt said:

    The one of Johnny Depp looks incredibly real. I would not even think about it being CG if I would’ve seen it in a different context.

    My 2nd favorite is the Old Black Guy. Fantastic work, thanks for the find :)

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    Some incredibly talented people and I imagine an even more astounding number of hours spent in creating this “art”.

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